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Dave Glenn

Dave Glenn, Director of Jazz Studies and professor of low brass at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, received a Bachelor of Music in trombone performance from North Texas State University and a Master of Music in composition from the University of Northern Colorado. Dave Glenn spent 11 years as a professional trombonist in New York City. While there, he played for ten years with the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band and toured extensively with Bill Watrous’ Manhattan Wildlife Refuge, Diana Ross and Lou Rawls. Dave also subbed on tours with Chuck Mangione, Blood, Sweat and Tears and the Mel Lewis Orchestra. He was on the Grammy-award winning recording Walk on the Water by the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band. Dave Glenn has also recorded two jazz CDs of his original compositions and arrangements, “Journeys” and “National Pastime” (released in June 2009). He has composed four commissioned works for orchestra, the latest being “A Valley of Streams” by the Walla Walla Symphony in 2007, and numerous chamber works, the latest being “Sculpture Garden for Piano Quintet”,commissioned by the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival in 2009. Dave Glenn is an endorsing artist for Conn/Selmer, a member of American Composers Forum and an Origin Records recording artist.

Gear

Conn 100 H Trombone; Monette Prana TS6 mouthpiece


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Album Review

John Stowell / Dave Glenn & The Hawcaptak Quartet: Violin Memory

Read "Violin Memory" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Guitarist John Stowell does not hesitate when it comes to taking on unconventional projects. 2021 saw him teaming with vocalist Dan Dean on Rain Painting (Origin Records)--an album of featuring an overdubbed layering of voices (Dean's) making for lush and enriching choir-like harmonics, accompanied by Stowell's various guitars. The Seattle-based guitarist's follow-up finds him teaming with trombonist Dave Glenn, a longtime collaborator, and bringing in a classical string quartet to enhance the atmosphere. The results are a unique ...

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Greg Yasinitsky YAZZ Band: New Normal

Read "New Normal" reviewed by Jack Bowers


As one good album clearly deserves another, Greg Yasinitsky, who wears many hats—composer, arranger, woodwind specialist and educator among them—has released New Normal, the second impressive outing by his admirable Washington state-based ensemble, the YAZZ Band, which varies in size from septet to tentet. Unlike Yasinitsky's earlier album, YAZZ Band, which was recorded basically in one session with fixed personnel, the coronavirus pandemic upended any such plan this time, forcing an end to in-person studio sessions after five tracks had ...

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Primary Instrument

Trombone

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

Professor of Music, Director of Jazz Studies Whitman College Walla Walla, Wa.

Clinic/Workshop Information

1. Jazz Improvisation - Intellect and Intuition 2. Playing Jazz on the Trombone 3. Jazz Composing & Arranging

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Violin Memory

Origin Records
2022

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The Sextet Sessions

Self Produced
2022

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New Normal

Origin Records
2021

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The Mulligan...

Larsenjazz Productions
2021

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National Pastime

Origin Records
2009

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Lonely Blue Angel

From: Violin Memory
By Dave Glenn

G.P.

From: New Normal
By Dave Glenn

National Pastime

From: National Pastime
By Dave Glenn

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